21.5 RECOMMEND 21.4 Skip Montanaro's recent problems with X11 errors being generated when using X forwarding over ssh is not the first time that this problem's been raised, so I think that it's a candidate for the PROBLEMS file. ChangeLog addition: 2006-04-27 Malcolm Purvis <malcolmp(a)xemacs.org&gt; * PROBLEMS: Add entry concerning X errors when using ssh. xemacs-21.5-micro-patches source patch: Diff command: cvs -q diff -u Files affected: PROBLEMS Index: PROBLEMS =================================================================== RCS file: /pack/xemacscvs/XEmacs/xemacs/PROBLEMS,v retrieving revision 1.71 diff -u -r1.71 PROBLEMS --- PROBLEMS 2005/11/16 12:12:57 1.71 +++ PROBLEMS 2006/04/27 12:59:40 ＠＠ -1005,6 +1005,12 ＠＠ too old. There is a copy of the MIT X11R6 XKeysymDB file in the emacs `etc' directory. Try using that one. +*** Lots of warnings generated when displaying via ssh X forwarding. + +If you are seeing a significant number of X11 warnings (in particular +BadWindow errors) when using XEmacs via ssh X forwarding (ssh -X) try +using a TrustedX11 connection (ssh -Y) instead. + *** My X resources used to work, and now some of them are being ignored. Check the resources in .../etc/Emacs.ad (which is the same as the file -- Malcolm Purvis <malcolmp(a)xemacs.org&gt;